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PICES-POMA Award for 2010 PICES-POMA Award for 2010 ^ Station Papa 50°N 145°W Station Papa / Line-P Station Papa / Line-P

The original weather ships St. Catherine’s and the Stonetown

Replaced by Quadra and Vancouver

Later, Endeavour and Parizeau

And now CCGS John P. Tully . . .and thanks to countless officers and crew of all these ships

The Godfather John P. Tully

Sus Tabata Godfather-II

Godfather-III Frank Whitney

Godmother-I Marie Robert

60 years at Station Papa - Collaborators P ‐ Line Program Aug 1981 ‐ ongoing PMEL mooring 2007 ‐ ongoing Storm Response Subarctic Pacific Experiment (STREX) Ecosystem Research 1980 (SUPER) 1984 Mixed ‐ Layer Ocean Storms PMEL mooring Experiment (MILE) Series Fall 1987 1997 ‐ 1999 1972 410 51.08 400 390 Latitude (degree N) 380 51.00 370 360 350 340 50.92 330 320 310 50.83 300 290 280 270 50.75 260 WOCE PR-6 -144.25 -144.08 -143.92 -143.75 -143.58 Longitude (degree W) <----Argo---->

Plankton and iron limitation.. McAllister, Parsons and Strickland 1960, the N. Pacific is not the same as the Atlantic Subarctic Pacific Ecosystem Research (SUPER) 1984 Martin & Fitzwater 1988: the iron hypothesis

Series – Cooking at Papa 12 July, ~290 km 2 SF 6 20 July 10 July, 65 and fluorescence SF 6 & nitrate km 2 SF 6 & pCO 2 29 July and SeaWiFS 2 August, ~700 km 2 51.17 chl. 51.08 410 400 410 51.08 390 400 Latitude (degree N) 380 390 51.00 370 Latitude (degree N) 380 360 51.00 370 350 360 340 350 50.92 340 330 50.92 330 320 320 310 310 50.83 300 300 50.83 290 290 280 280 270 270 50.75 50.75 260 260 -144.25 -144.08 -143.92 -143.75 -143.58 50.67 -144.67 -144.50 -144.33 -144.17 -144.00 -143.83 Longitude (degree W) Longitude (degree W)

With a long time series we can define a climatology

Argo floats at Papa

Early days - The Guys of Papa

Later days - The Guys (not) of Papa

And some others…. A. Bychkov

Over 60 years, there have been too many sponsors to mention, here are a few…